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Education...education...educationTue, 06 Feb 2018 17:39:35 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/Comment on When is predictability a virtue? On standardized reading tests by teachingbattlegroundhttps://educationechochamber.wordpress.com/2018/02/06/when-is-predictability-a-virtue-on-standardized-reading-tests/comment-page-1/#comment-19907
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 17:39:35 +0000http://educationechochamber.wordpress.com/?p=37173#comment-19907A-level?
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Tue, 06 Feb 2018 17:06:47 +0000http://educationechochamber.wordpress.com/?p=37173#comment-19906“It’s possible, of course, to go too far in this direction, even on reading tests. I’m reminded of stories I’ve heard about the British system, in which schools are allowed to choose a limited number of literary works to have their secondary students tested on, with the result that students may spend two years doing nothing but intensively studying a couple of novels.”

Although I agree with the general thrust of the argument, the conflating of a “reading test” with an A-Level in English Literature serves no purpose other than to highlight the author’s lack of experience.

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Tue, 30 Jan 2018 11:47:23 +0000http://educationechochamber.wordpress.com/?page_id=1#comment-19869Hi,
I posted on your echo chamber uncut in addition to this website as I’m not sure which one it best fits?
If my blog meets the criteria, i’d love to be included, thanks so much.
Robbiehttps://howthenshouldweteach.wordpress.com
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Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:09:07 +0000http://educationechochamber.wordpress.com/2018/01/01/andy/#comment-19756Many thanks! I think you’re probably right. The more I taught, the more I came to see the limitations of the whole process, even as the claims made for it were continually inflated…
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Mon, 01 Jan 2018 19:30:36 +0000http://educationechochamber.wordpress.com/2018/01/01/andy/#comment-19754What a thought provoking post- something that only teaching professionals can relate to.
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Thu, 30 Nov 2017 11:43:35 +0000http://educationechochamber.wordpress.com/?p=36560#comment-19593Not necessary but useful. I’m yet to be convinced that the laudable aim of improving students’ understanding of the epistemiology of science has much effect on their ability to critically assess science in the media. For me it ends up in the same basket as ‘teach students to understand credit and then they won’t get into debt’. It doesn’t always hurt to try these things, but the reason students don’t critically engage with information in the media is probably less down to a lack of tools and more down to well known factors influencing how we select and interpret information. I suspect there’s also more than a little smell of teaching that “science doesn’t know everything so therefore it can’t be used to refute this particular thing I want to be true”, climate change for example. I’m not sure how many other subjects in school have to spend time explicitly teaching students the limitations of their own subject.
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Sat, 11 Nov 2017 09:06:15 +0000http://educationechochamber.wordpress.com/?p=33509#comment-19439Hi there! Thanks so much for putting all of this together, could you include my blog on this list?

I write about research, teaching practice and education at large from a primary perspective

Thanks so much,

Robbie

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Thu, 27 Jul 2017 13:36:18 +0000http://educationechochamber.wordpress.com/?p=15851#comment-18958I have just started blogging and I am based in Yorkshire and the Humber, thanks for writing your blog, very informative!
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Wed, 26 Jul 2017 20:24:25 +0000http://educationechochamber.wordpress.com/?p=35096#comment-18956This is a significant report which is well researched.
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